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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued an executive order excusing federal employees from duty on December 24. All federal offices will be closed. The order said “the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement this order.”

Tangier is slowly sinking into the Chesapeake Bay. WTOP's new podcast takes you on a journey to the isolated island to meet its people and find out what's being done to save a community from extinction.